Publisher and developer of casual games G5 Entertainment in the second quarter of 2017 forecasts revenue of $32.7 million, which is 165% more than in the second quarter of last year.

The revenues of the Guns of Boom mobile shooter from the Lithuanian Game Insight studio exceeded $1 million three weeks after the worldwide release.

Activision Blizzard’s revenues for the first quarter of 2017 were better than expected and amounted to $1.7 billion, according to the company’s quarterly report.

Quarterly revenues of Japanese mobile developer GungHo Online Entertainment increased by 2.7% to $229 million compared to the previous quarter.

Last year, the Chinese corporation Tencent earned $ 10.3 billion on online games, which is 25% higher than in 2015.

Annual sales revenue from Swedish developer MAG Interactive increased to a record $29.5 million, and operating profit increased to $5.8 million.

The record performance of the gaming division and the success of The Angry Birds Movie increased the company’s profit by a third compared to 2015.

Tapjoy, a company providing services in the field of monetization and distribution of applications, has published indicators of its business network over the past few years of its existence. So, for the period from 2010 to 2012, developers earned more than $200 million using Tapjoy.

AppData, a well-known provider of social and mobile application analytics, announced that now it will also regularly post data on the approximate profitability of applications and developers.

At the end of April, App Annie published a detailed review of the mobile games market for March. According to him, the Japanese Puzzle & Dragons is still the highest-grossing game on iOS and Google Play. The Candy Crush Saga and Temple Run 2 projects are the leaders in downloads.

The revenues of leading mobile game developers have quadrupled over the past year, said Anil Dharni, one of the vice presidents of GREE.

The creators of the Modern Combat, N.O.V.A. and Asphalt series reported a 27% annual increase in revenue. They would have been more significant if not for the mediocre results of the fourth quarter.

The gross income of the Supercell startup has reached $ 1 million per day, according to journalists from PandoDaily and The Next Web, citing their sources in the Finnish company. 

While Apple shares are rapidly going down, HTC is reporting an increase in its earnings over the past month. For the first time since March of this year, the company’s sales went up.

App Annie company announced in its official blog that over the past 24 months, the profit coming from mobile applications distributed for free on iOS has quadrupled, and on Google Play – 3.5 times. 

South Korean developer and publisher of mobile games Com2uS reported record results in the last quarter.  The company’s revenue amounted to $19.7 million, which is 158% higher than in the same period last year. And net profit increased by 490% to $5.31 million.   

Among the largest game publishers, perhaps, it is Electronic Arts that is most actively and consistently developing the digital and mobile directions. And although the company earned less on the mobile front in the last quarter ended June 30 than in the previous three months, there is a clear general trend towards an increase in revenue in this sector.

Sega’s management expects that the mobile market will help the company get back on its feet and return to profitability. 

The French performed well in the second quarter of this year, collecting 119% more money on smartphones and tablets than in the second quarter of last year.